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Pointing Accuracy Improvements for the South Pole Telescope with Machine Learning
P. M. Chichura, A. Rahlin, A. J. Anderson +93
We present improvements to the pointing accuracy of the South Pole Telescope (SPT) using machine learning. The ability of the SPT to point accurately at the sky is limited by its s…
Detection of Thermal Emission at Millimeter Wavelengths from Low-Earth Orbit Satellites
A. Foster, A. Chokshi, A. J. Anderson +88
The detection of artificial satellite thermal emission at millimeter wavelengths is presented using data from the 3rd-Generation receiver on the South Pole Telescope (SPT-3G). This…
In-Flight Performance of Spider's 280 GHz Receivers
Elle C. Shaw, P. A. R. Ade, S. Akers +84
SPIDER is a balloon-borne instrument designed to map the cosmic microwave background at degree-angular scales in the presence of Galactic foregrounds. SPIDER has mapped a large sky…
Measurement and Modeling of Polarized Atmosphere at the South Pole with SPT-3G
A. Coerver, J. A. Zebrowski, S. Takakura +102
We present the detection and characterization of fluctuations in linearly polarized emission from the atmosphere above the South Pole. These measurements make use of data from the…
Low-loss Si-based Dielectrics for High Frequency Components of Superconducting Detectors
M. Lisovenko, Z. Pan, P. S. Barry +7
Silicon-based dielectric is crucial for many superconducting devices, including high-frequency transmission lines, filters, and resonators. Defects and contaminants in the amorphou…
Quasiparticle Generation-Recombination Noise in the Limit of Low Detector Volume
J. Li, P. S. Barry, T. Cecil +8
We have measured the quasiparticle generation-recombination (GR) noise in aluminium lumped element kinetic inductors with a wide range of detector volumes at various temperatures.…
Noise Optimization for MKIDs with Different Design Geometries and Material Selections
Z. Pan, K. R. Dibert, J. Zhang +13
The separation and optimization of noise components is critical to microwave-kinetic inductance detector (MKID) development. We analyze the effect of several changes to the lumped-…
Measurement of Dielectric Loss in Silicon Nitride at Centimeter and Millimeter Wavelengths
Z. Pan, P. S. Barry, T. Cecil +11
This work presents a suite of measurement techniques for characterizing the dielectric loss tangent across a wide frequency range from 1 GHz to 150 GHz using the same test ch…
Fabrication Development for SPT-SLIM, a Superconducting Spectrometer for Line Intensity Mapping
T. Cecil, C. Albert, A. J. Anderson +18
Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) is a new observational technique that uses low-resolution observations of line emission to efficiently trace the large-scale structure of the Universe…
Conceptual Design of the Modular Detector and Readout System for the CMB-S4 survey experiment
D. R. Barron, Z. Ahmed, J. Aguilar +47
We present the conceptual design of the modular detector and readout system for the Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4 (CMB-S4) ground-based survey experiment. CMB-S4 will map the…
In-flight gain monitoring of SPIDER's transition-edge sensor arrays
J. P. Filippini, A. E. Gambrel, A. S. Rahlin +67
Experiments deploying large arrays of transition-edge sensors (TESs) often require a robust method to monitor gain variations with minimal loss of observing time. We propose a sens…
Optical leakage mitigation in ortho-mode transducer detectors for microwave applications
Riccardo Gualtieri, Peter S. Barry, Thomas Cecil +5
Planar ortho-mode transducers (OMTs) are a commonly used method of coupling optical signals between waveguides and on-chip circuitry and detectors. While the ideal OMT-waveguide co…
The Design and Integrated Performance of SPT-3G
J. A. Sobrin, A. J. Anderson, A. N. Bender +120
SPT-3G is the third survey receiver operating on the South Pole Telescope dedicated to high-resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Sensitive measurements…
Performance and characterization of the SPT-3G digital frequency-domain multiplexed readout system using an improved noise and crosstalk model
J. Montgomery, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +118
The third generation South Pole Telescope camera (SPT-3G) improves upon its predecessor (SPTpol) by an order of magnitude increase in detectors on the focal plane. The technology u…
Design and pre-flight performance of SPIDER 280 GHz receivers
E. C. Shaw, P. A. R. Ade, S. Akers +79
In this work we describe upgrades to the Spider balloon-borne telescope in preparation for its second flight, currently planned for December 2021. The Spider instrument is optimize…
The large scale polarization explorer (LSPE) for CMB measurements: performance forecast
The LSPE collaboration, G. Addamo, P. A. R. Ade +102
[Abridged] The measurement of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation is one of the current frontiers in cosmology. In particular, the detection of the primor…
Progress report on the Large Scale Polarization Explorer
L. Lamagna, G. Addamo, P. A. R. Ade +96
The Large Scale Polarization Explorer (LSPE) is a cosmology program for the measurement of large scale curl-like features (B-modes) in the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Back…
Particle response of antenna-coupled TES arrays: results from SPIDER and the lab
B. Osherson, J. P. Filippini, J. Fu +45
Future mm-wave and sub-mm space missions will employ large arrays of multiplexed Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers. Such instruments must contend with the high flux of cosmic…
PICO: Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins
S. Hanany, M. Alvarez, E. Artis +79
The Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (PICO) is a proposed probe-scale space mission consisting of an imaging polarimeter operating in frequency bands between 20 and 800 GHz. W…
CMB-S4 Decadal Survey APC White Paper
Kevork Abazajian, Graeme Addison, Peter Adshead +222
We provide an overview of the science case, instrument configuration and project plan for the next-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment CMB-S4, for consid…
CMB-S4 Science Case, Reference Design, and Project Plan
Kevork Abazajian, Graeme Addison, Peter Adshead +222
We present the science case, reference design, and project plan for the Stage-4 ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment CMB-S4.
PICO: Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins
Shaul Hanany, Marcelo Alvarez, Emmanuel Artis +79
The Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (PICO) is an imaging polarimeter that will scan the sky for 5 years in 21 frequency bands spread between 21 and 799 GHz. It will produce f…
280 GHz Focal Plane Unit Design and Characterization for the SPIDER-2 Suborbital Polarimeter
A. S. Bergman, P. A. R. Ade, S. Akers +76
We describe the construction and characterization of the 280 GHz bolometric focal plane units (FPUs) to be deployed on the second flight of the balloon-borne SPIDER instrument. The…
Design of 280 GHz feedhorn-coupled TES arrays for the balloon-borne polarimeter SPIDER
Johannes Hubmayr, Jason E. Austermann, James A. Beall +40
We describe 280 GHz bolometric detector arrays that instrument the balloon-borne polarimeter SPIDER. A primary science goal of SPIDER is to measure the large-scale B-mode polarizat…